The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| The reduction of the public debt f
July was $4,000, 900.
The Columbian bank of PHILADELPHIA
state institution, has assigned.
The French La Vote, while loadi1
petroleum at Magador, Morocco, was d.
stroyed by fire, and six persons lost the
lives.
Charles Williams leaped from balloo
near Cincinnati, Monday, at an altitude {
2,5OO feet and descended safely with
parachute.
The British ship, Star of Scotia, ha
been wrecked off the coast of Falkland
The first officer and seven of the ere,
were drowned.
A disastrous tornado passed over Davi'
City, Nebraska. on the 3Oth, killing on
man and demolishing over half the build
ings in the town.
In the parade Of Ohio, bri igade
Knights of Pythias, at Dayton, Thursday
six officers and twenty one knights were
Frustrated by heat.
The election in Texas, Thursday, re
suited in the defeat of the proposed pro
hibitory amendment to the constitution
by $4,000 majority.
The town of Sassaowo, in Galicia, has
been destroyed by fire. Fifteen corpses
have been recovered from the ruins and
twenty children are missing.
Six blocks, covered by two brick
and number of frame shanties, were
burned in Cincinnati, rendering one
hundred families homeless.
Disastrous floods are reported in Geor-
gia. Half of the city of Atlanta was
flooded, and great damage to growing
crops was sustained by the farmers.
The election in Kentucky on Monday
resulted in the election of the democratic
state ticket by plurality Of about 3d.
900. The Legislature will be strongly
democratic.
Mccoy, the Portsmouth, Ohio, saloon
keeper who killed DR.. Northup, has been
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree, and will be sentenced to imprison-
ment for life.
A train at East Saginaw, Michigan,
struck wagon containing five persons on
Sunday last. Two we're killed outright
md two so seriously injured that they
cannot recover.
Alaska, through her governor, refuses
% attend the centennial celebration of the
because she is denied the
lights accorded to other territories under
he constitution.
A collision at Devils Lake, Tuesday,
between a freight and work train, tcle-
coped the caboose and sleeping car, kill
ng Henry Flynn and Peter Carlson, and
njuring two others.
A dispatch from Evansville, Indiana,
tates that an earthquake which occurred
here caused 2. P. Hayden's farm OF 800
cres to sink four or five feet, and trans
ormed it into lake.
At Homer, Michigan, on Tuesday, Geo.
'urton murdered his wife, wounded his
1other- -in-law, and shot himself. The |
rouble grew out of divorce proceedings
astltuted by the wife.
AT the election in Salt Lake county, |
Jtah, Monday, the Gentiles succeeded in
lecting four members to the legislature
he result is considered great victory
y the anti i-Mormons.
A fire in tenament house in Chicago
n the 30th, resulted in the death of
aptain Cowan, Mrs. Trego and daughter,
nd the injury of nine other persons, four
whom will probably die.
A Peoria dispatch says that Justice
ralg, OF the Illinois supreme court, in
rivate conversation, stated the supreme
ourt would not grant a new trial to the
,ndemned Chicago anarchists.
Crops have suffered so severely from
'e effects of drouth in Illinois that farm
s in some localities are cutting their
,rn, believing it will yield better returns
fodder than if left to mature.
District Attorney George II. Peters of
tab, has filed suit in the district court
Utah against the trustees of the Nor
on church, in behalf of the United
ates, to disincorporatc the church and
ind up its affairs.
A collision occurred at Hookset, N. H.,
Saturday, between passenger train
d mixed train, owing to misplaced
itch. Brakeman Fred Barney and
zpress Messenger French were killed
d number of passengers severely
rned.
The coroner's jury in the railroad &C
lent at St. Thomas, Ontario, decided ;
at the accident was due to carelessness
officials and employees of the Grand
unk railway company. Conductor 6
ettigue was committed on a charge of
As a result of a family quarrel William
illshire, the keeper of an oyster saloon
Camden, N. j., shot his wife, deliber-
,ly murdered Justice OF the Peace J.
Dorr, and ended the work by sending
bullet through his own brain, dying b
most instantly.
Charles H. Reed, one Of the lawyers ,
10 defended Guiteau, attempted suicide
New York Saturday by jumping into {
. North river. He was rescued and r
zen to hospital, where he is suffering e
m injuries received from blow from J
paddle wheel of ferry boat.
While laborers were at work on Wed c
day last, removing damaged wheat I
m the ruins of the st. Anthony eleva- $
which recently burned at Minneapo- A
one of the heavy walls fell, burying Ii
slve men beneath it, and manglingi
m almost beyond recognition. a
Maynard decides that bale "